Robert Powell Iii, Shrm-Scp Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Focused on coaching employees at all levels to achieve maximum impact in driving company goals. • Responsible for ensuring compliance with all federal, state, and local agencies as they relate to the Human Resources• Responsible for administering policies, procedures, regulations and contracts as they relate to the Human Resource function• Develop and facilitate programs related to the health, economic, social and safety well-being of company employees• Along with respective Management Team, developed and facilitated strategic short and long term goals as they related to the employment function (i.e. recruiting, screening, coordination of staffing plans, promotions, training, succession planning, and positive counseling) and profitability.

Brussels, Be

• A direct report to the President• Led HR function of newly divested company of 500 employees.• Managed Staff of three Site HR Managers and one HR Generalist in providing day-to-day business partner support to the corporate team and oversight over the seven plant locations.• Partnered with all levels of management in the management and transformation of talent.

Brussels, Be

•Reduced Sales team turnover from 33% to 14% in under two years. •Supervised the labor relation activities for 5 plant locations with collectively bargained employees.•Implemented a new Job Evaluation method and regraded exempt positions for business unit following merger with Solvay.

•Led HR operations through a team of 10 staff members covering the following areas: benefits, staffing, retiree administration, compensation, payroll and HRIS. •Served as North American project manager for Global HR Outsourcing initiative.

•Partnered with managers and business HR on compensation, performance management and related HR issues. •Reviewed and approved salary and position changes and spot award payments. •Led team of HR System support through implementation of new HRIS system (UltiPro). •Led creation of new systems to support HR process in the areas of severance planning, timeoff management, payroll/personal data transactions, progression and succession, as well as payroll administration.

Brussels, Be

•Managed the overall operation of the 401K plan with $300 million in assets and 6600 participants. •Led team of 4 programmers and 2 systems analyst in the support of the HRIS (AS400) system. •Implemented TALX IVR system for benefit enrollment.

Brussels, Be

•Coordinated the conversion and outsourcing of the 401K plan to a new recordkeeper and trustee from request for proposal to authorization to go live. •Played a key role in the implementation of Cafeteria Plan, including plan setup with new vendor, coordinated programming of internal HRIS system.

Brussels, Be

•Consolidated (15) 401K plans acquired by acquisition over a period of three years into a single company wide 401K plan resulting in administrative savings of $75,000. •Supervised the delivery 401K, pension and H/W processing for 25 sites covering 3500 employees through a staff of 2 administrators.

• Directly responsible for the administration and servicing of 20 pension plans totaling 4,000 lives.• Prepared IRS Form 5500 and its related schedules for DC/DB plans.• Prepared annual valuation reports and employee statements.